We are all alone, together

This City of Islands. The name appealed to me for numerous reasons, the most important being the period of my life I spent living in Stockholm, Sweden, a city comprised of islands, and because the phrase suggests at both human individuality and subjectivity—all of us as islands—and the formation of communities: these islands constituting a city, a single, connected entity made up of so many separate, isolated parts.

There's something romantic in the notion that we are all alone, together.